Clinton Campaign and Democrat Media Complex Enjoy Unique Mutual Benefits
Posted: October 17, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: ABC, Alisyn Camerota, Barack Obama, Campaign financing, Campaign manager, CBS, Center for Public Integrity, Clinton Cash, CNN, Corey Lewandowski, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Fundraising, Hillary Clinton, journalism, media, NBC, New York Times, New Yorker, The Trump Organization Leave a comment
New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster running an “ugly and xenophobic campaign.”
What Nussbaum didn’t disclose in her dispatches: she contributed $250 to Democrat Hillary Clinton in April.
On the nation’s left coast, Les Waldron, an Emmy Award-winning assignment editor at television station KFMB, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, swung right in July, shooting $28 to Trump.
And Carole Simpson, a former ABC “World News Tonight” anchor who in 1992 became the first African-American woman to moderate a presidential debate, is not moderate about her personal politics: the current Emerson College distinguished journalist-in-residence and regular TV news guest has given Clinton $2,800.
Conventional journalistic wisdom holds that reporters and editors are referees on politics’ playing field — bastions of neutrality who mustn’t root for Team Red or Team Blue, either in word or deed.
But during this decidedly unconventional election season, during which “the media” has itself become a prominent storyline, several hundred news professionals have aligned themselves with Clinton or Trump by personally donating money to one or the other.
In all, people identified in federal campaign finance filings as journalists, reporters, news editors or television news anchors — as well as other donors known to be working in journalism — have combined to give more than $396,000 to the presidential campaigns of Clinton and Trump, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis.
Nearly all of that money — more than 96 percent — has benefited Clinton: About 430 people who work in journalism have, through August, combined to give about $382,000 to the Democratic nominee, the Center for Public Integrity’s analysis indicates.
About 50 identifiable journalists have combined to give about $14,000 to Trump. (Talk radio ideologues, paid TV pundits and the like — think former Trump campaign manager-turned-CNN commentator Corey Lewandowski — are not included in the tally.)
Jeb’s Post-Debate Fundraising Letter
Posted: October 29, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Fundraising, GOP, Jeb 2016, Jeb Bush, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Campaign 2016 Leave a comment
Myra Adams: Is the IRS in Collusion with the Clinton Foundation?
Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Advertising mail, Aid, Amazon Kindle, Animal Welfare, Charitable organization, Charity Commission for England and Wales, Christian Today, Cold calling, Fundraising, World Wide Fund for Nature Leave a comment
Charles Ortel’s quest to expose Clinton Foundation fraud has a Lois Lerner connection.
Myra Adams writes: Does anyone remember Henry Markopolos? In case you don’t, he was the former securities industry executive who for nine years persistently, but unsuccessfully, tried to convince the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the respected securities investment firm headed by Bernie Madoff was engaged in massive long-term fraud.
Fast forward to 2009 when Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for operating the largest private Ponzi scheme in history adding up to billions of dollars in client losses.
In 2010, Markopolos wrote about his dramatic whistle-blower experience in a book aptly titled, “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller.”
So why am I bringing up the heroic efforts of Harry Markopolos?
The answer is a whistle-blower in the mold of Markopolos has come to my attention and his name is Charles Ortel. Like Markopolos, Ortel has a background as a financial industry executive in addition to a successful track record of identifying economic trends and systemic problems within companies, most notably General Electric.
Throughout 2015, Ortel has carefully studied and documented a decade’s worth of domestic and global fraud, theft, corruption and violations of strict IRS rules being perpetrated by a prestigious multi-billion dollar charitable organization known as the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Unlike Markopolos, who went to the SEC and was largely ignored because of incompetence, Ortel believes that the IRS is actively in collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
Collusion with the high-profile charity explains why the IRS is not thoroughly investigating Ortel’s carefully documented allegations of illegal activity on a scale so grand that a major audit would certainly be triggered if the name of the foundation was not “Clinton.”
Only collusion explains why, for over a decade, the IRS has allowed the Clinton Foundation, and all its umbrella organizations with different names to operate outside the strict rules and regulations under which all tax-exempt charities must operate or risk losing their tax-exempt status. Read the rest of this entry »
Secretary of State Speaking Fees Compared
Posted: June 19, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach, charity, Clinton Foundation, Condi Rice, Democratic Party, Fundraising, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Pantsuit Report, Secretary of State Leave a comment
Hong Kong Protesters Considering Retreat
Posted: December 4, 2014 Filed under: Asia, China, Global | Tags: Beijing, Cathay Pacific, Democracy, Fundraising, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Federation of Students, Moral and National Education, National League for Democracy, Occupy Central, Occupy movement, Pan-democracy camp, Protest 1 Comment
HONG KONG— Mia Lamar and Isabella Steger reporting: Student protesters demanding greater democracy for Hong Kong said Thursday they are more seriously weighing a retreat from the roads they have occupied for more than two months.
The remarks were the latest sign of the narrowing options that the protesters face as police have increased their efforts to remove the demonstrators from the streets and public support for the occupation of busy city thoroughfares has faded.
“Occupying here doesn’t put enough pressure on the government. If it put enough pressure, we wouldn’t be here two months….In the end, we didn’t get what we want, but this movement inspired people that we can’t live like this anymore.”
— 18-year-old student Timothy Sun
The Hong Kong Federation of Students, a group of university students at the helm of the protests, and Scholarism, a teenage student protest group, could issue a decision over whether to retreat from the encampments within the next week, according to student leaders.
A street cleaner pushes her cart between rows of tents at the pro-democracy movement’s main protest site in Hong Kong’s Admiralty district. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Yvonne Leung, a spokeswoman for HKFS, made the remarks on a local radio program. Eighteen-year-old Scholarism leader Joshua Wong separately told The Wall Street Journal that his group, which works closely with HKFS, is also considering a retreat. Mr. Wong is in the third day of a hunger strike, along with four other teen members of his group.
“For me, I think it’s time to adjust tactics. Retreat doesn’t necessarily mean failure.”
— Student leader
Protesters are calling for the right of citizens to select their own candidates for the city’s top leadership post, not those vetted by Beijing as per a decision handed down by the National People’s Congress in August. Those calls have been rejected by the government as nonnegotiable under Hong Kong’s Basic Law, a “mini-constitution” held with Beijing. The city will vote in 2017 for its next chief executive, a five-year appointment. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama: Okay, Maybe This Wasn’t the Best Week To Fundraise on Economic Good News
Posted: October 9, 2014 Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Billionaires, Democratic, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Fundraising, Millionaires, Wall Street Leave a comment
Image source: Mad Magazine
The Dow industrials fall nearly 2%, logging their steepest one-day decline since June 2013: http://t.co/OBNrmMeap0pic.twitter.com/T35H7OsDiI
— WSJ Markets (@WSJmarkets) October 9, 2014
White House Admits Obama Delayed Executive Amnesty So GOP Couldn’t Campaign on It
Posted: October 8, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Amnesty, Barack Obama, Democrat, Election, Executive Amnesty, Fundraising, GOP, Immigration, Josh Earnest, Mid-terms 1 Comment
A revealing admission. And further proof that this administration was never about serving the public interest, statesmanship, or governing. The U.S. government has been politicized and subverted to the point where it’s little more than a fundraising and election-rigging machine. One that commands an Army, Navy, Air force, Marines, an EPA, an IRS, ICE, labor department, Federal Reserve, Treasury, and countless law enforcement and regulatory agencies, a rose garden, and endless golfing vacations. And enjoys its own taxpayer-funded, state-of-the-art luxury fundraising airplane.
“…you would have seen Republican candidates do more to make the immigration issue central to their campaign. And in the event that they were successful in their campaign, the concern would be that they would cite their opposition to immigration reform as a reason to their success.”
— White House press secretary Josh Earnest
Here’s a bonus “headline of the day” from Breitbart.com
And here’s some bonus questions. What makes Obama think the GOP can’t campaign on executive amnesty? And did he really think delaying it would prevent his party from losing the Senate? That’s the risk of being political, unpopular, and short-sighted.
From National Review Online:
White House press secretary Josh Earnest bluntly admitted on Wednesday that the reason President Obama chose to delay executive amnesty for illegal immigrants was so Republicans would not be able to campaign on the issue during the midterms. Read the rest of this entry »
MoveOn.org Flaming Fundraising Freakout Anguish Crisis Panic Message of the Day
Posted: August 13, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Democrats, Fundraising, Global Panic of 2014, Mid-Term Election, MoveOn.org, Political action committee, Senate 1 Comment
[IMAGE] Kimberly Guilfoyle Warns Putin
Posted: July 30, 2014 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Democrats, Fundraising, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Obama, The Five, Vladimir Putin, White House 2 Comments
Humanitarian Crisis Management
Posted: July 9, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Billiards, Fundraising, humanitarian crisis, Obama, Texas, Unaccompanied migrants 1 Comment
Dear Friend: I’m Suing Obama
Posted: January 16, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Fundraising, GOP, Humor, Justice, Lawsuit, Obama, Republican, RNC 3 CommentsA letter from the RNC. I decorated it a little…
House Democrat’s Low Fundraising Sparks Retirement Rumors (Again)
Posted: October 9, 2013 Filed under: Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Collin Peterson, Congress, Democratic Party, Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, Federal Election Commission, Fundraising, midterm elections, Minnesota, Mitt Romney, Peterson, Roll Call 2 Comments
Peterson posted weak fundraising again. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Emily Cahn reports: Rep. Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., raised about $83,000 in the third quarter, according to his third-quarter fundraising report filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Peterson’s fundraising haul is $10,000 less than last quarter’s fundraising total — both considered to be paltry sums for a long-time member of Congress. He reported $227,000 in the bank.
Such a small haul raises questions about Peterson’s plans for 2014 because weak fundraising can signal that a member is looking to retire. On Tuesday, Peterson’s campaign said in a statement that the congressman is still considering his plans for 2014.
“It’s premature to read too much into Congressman Peterson’s report this fundraising quarter given that he does not yet have an opponent, he is still considering whether he will run again, and the amount raised is similar to what he’s raised previously in off-year quarters,” the campaign said in the statement. “At this time, he remains focused on getting the farm bill completed.”
Republicans publicly pushed Peterson to retire earlier this year, knowing that Minnesota’s 7th District would be more competitive if he was not on the ballot.
GOP nominee Mitt Romney carried Peterson’s district with a 10-point margin in 2012.
There are no Republicans currently challenging Peterson this cycle. However businessman Scott Van Binsbergen has been eyeing a bid, and moved closer to making a decision last month, he told CQ Roll Call in a phone interview. Minnesota’s 7th District is rated a Democrat Favored contest by Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call
